Science project: Food-dye Color Wheel Every year about this time I start to really, REALLY crave color. Like clockwork, every January I start scheming about decorating with yellow or orange or something bright just to liven things up a bit. It's been a little better this year because my kitchen is south-facing and everything is white and light blue, so it feels nice and light and airy. That being said, I still think more color this time of year is great. It was such fun, and I couldn't believe how patient the kids were (ages 3 and 5), just staring at the colored water move slowly up the paper towels and mixing together. Here's what you need to make this fun color wheel: 6 clear cups 6 paper towels red food dye blue food dye yellow food dye Here's what you do to make the color wheel: 1) Fill 3 cups with water and mix in red food dye into one, blue food dye into the second and yellow food dye into the third. 3) fold the paper towels into about 1-inch strips and place each end into adjacent cups.
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How To Draw Learn to Draw - The basic elements in drawing Let's get a bit more in depth with the elements of drawing. The rest of this website will get even further into each of these elements. Line is the most basic element of the drawing. I'm not saying we won't be drawing lines because they don't exist in the real world. Shape occurs when the first line is drawn. Proportion and Perspective. Light and Shadow create depth and atmosphere in a drawing. The whole drawing. Pastels Plus Links to Tutorials - Hodgepodge Welcome to our Hodgepodge free listing of chalk pastels, acrylics and video art tutorials for all ages. This list of free tutorials is always being updated. Rather than 50, we now have 100+ free art tutorials! Please scroll down for a list of printable lessons. Click on each link to view and print individually… We love pastels. What type of chalk pastels to use? The pastels our children use (above) are Rembrandt. Handmade by Terri Ludwig. Dick Blick. Nana’s advice – start small: The student grade Alphacolor set is a good starter for $10.00. What type of paper is best for chalk pastels? Our very first pastel pictures were made on a roll of newsprint we had close by. How do I store chalk pastels? The small set of student starter pastels come in a plastic sleeve for storage. After we’d been using pastels for about two years, Nana gifted us with a wooden box with drawers for storage. Details in her post, Soft Chalk Pastels: Storage and Cleaning. Nana’s advice for beginning with pastels Seasonal
Learn Basic Drawing Six FREE easy and fun Basic Drawing lessons! The six Basic Drawing Lessons I have created have proven successful for beginning students over the past 40 years I have been an art instructor. I have written step by step, information-rich lessons that are easy to understand and fun to do! Learning drawing skills and techniques is accomplished through exercises that acquaint students with drawing materials first, so that confidence is gained early on and the student is ready for the visual projects. Perhaps you are feeling cautious about drawing. You may think that drawing is just for those gifted with creative talent. Watch my video of the introductory basic drawing lecture that helps and encourages students like you to learn how to draw! Basic Drawing Lecture Here's the Basic Drawing Course Outline Doodling! "Samantha" Pencil drawing by Lois DeWitt Shading! Draw What You See! Line, tone and texture! "Onion Still Life" By Lois DeWitt Click here to start the FREE Basic Drawing Lessons.
Tips for Drawing: Form and Volume Recently I came across some very wise questioning by an animator named Peter J. Casey during an online discussion of “How to get better at art” over at AnimationForum.net. Today I want to revise the answer I gave there and take a deeper look at practicing form and volume. In the discussion, it was brought up that you need to practice fundamentals (very true). “Ok then define it here, because ‘Foundations’ have never been explained to me. This is what I’ve gathered from ‘foundations.’ Practice form and volume: Ok yeah, I get that, make the drawing look like it appears in 3d space. First I want to point out that Peter is well ahead of me in one very important way: He asked what I had wondered about for years. Since I had once had those same questions, and Peter currently has those same questions, I decided there are probably MANY people out there who have those same questions. Form and Volume This is a tricky one because honestly one day I just “got” it. Specifically pages 5 and 6.
Discussion Page Article: A list of recommended books on sketching Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt Fuji by Henry D. Smith This is a must have for all who want to focus on the beauty of line using brush and ink -- in a Japanese style. It's not an instruction book like the two above, but a collection of some of the finest examples of brush drawing I have ever seen. 19th century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai produced these when he was over seventy years old, and they represent years of experience and refinement. This is a reproduction or facsimile of a book of wood block prints which were based on his drawings. This book has become more valuable as I continually go back and study these works. This book is the next best thing to having the original book of prints. One caveat: the cover on my paperback copy was not well glued to the spine, and fell off in a few minutes. This book seems to be out of print, and only a few copies are available from individual sellers through Amazon.
drawing lessons Skin Shading Overview The idea to this painting came when I sat down with my notebook in my sofa one evening, and tried to come up with something that was both upclose and personal, yet touched on larger issues, such as affairs of state. Preferrably involving only two people, because I find that can often be more intense. 1. the sketch Roughly sketched on small notebook paper without erasing. 1b. cylinders and light All good art courses teach the basics by making students draw spheres, blocks and cones in different lighting, over and over. 2. gray-wash on sketch Now I develop and clarify the lighting I had in mind, working black&white first because it's easier to only worry about one issue at a time. 3. white highlights Next I fill in whatever should be lightest. 4. refine Now I started using progressively smaller brushes, also Smudge and Blur and Airbrush. 5. To start adding color, make a new layer, mode: Color. You can also use brushes set to Color or Hue. 6. refine 7. use reference 8. finished image